[Req] Robotic Panels for Body Texture

[Fox Maiden]

I want a body texture that looks like it is made of panels, like an android or something... like one of these pictures here:

 

http://michaelo.deviantart.com/#/art/AmalgaMATE-3-143884774?hf=1

 

I have been trying to do it, but I am no good with massive edits like this. Cut-out circles and exposed joints (back of the knees, heels, and elbow areas and the like) would be cool too.

 

Could someone do this for me on a UNPB mesh? I would really appreciate it.

 

Just a psd file with normal maps would be great so I can apply it to different texture types.

 

Thank you.

 

 

[GrimSovereign]

I want a body texture that looks like it is made of panels, like an android or something... like one of these pictures here:

 

http://michaelo.deviantart.com/#/art/AmalgaMATE-3-143884774?hf=1

 

I have been trying to do it, but I am no good with massive edits like this. Cut-out circles and exposed joints (back of the knees, heels, and elbow areas and the like) would be cool too.

 

Could someone do this for me on a UNPB mesh? I would really appreciate it.

 

Just a psd file with normal maps would be great so I can apply it to different texture types.

 

Thank you.

are you wanting a texture? or and edited mesh plus texture?

 

also would be neat to see something like that in game, totaly not lore friendly but ive past that line ages ago.

[GrimSovereign]

taking a look at many of the pics that deviant has done, it would be a rather simple task to edit a mesh in zbrush to get that kind of look, the poblem is wether or not skyrim would be capable of handling the pollygon count after that edit for the count would triple in size.

[Fox Maiden]

No I just want a texture edit... though actually having the cut out sections in the knees and elbows like in the pics would be fantastic as well. Especially if they could have glowy bits in certain areas. But a simple texture with just the panel cut-outs would be pretty nice.

 

My idea is a race that was altered by the dwemer and became part mechanical, and have been living in underground ruins since the dwarves disappeared; kinda like the falmer, but not deranged mutants.

 

I want it done on UNPB and Mature skin (I can supply my edited mature skin texture).

 

I like the arm designs from this one: http://michaelo.deviantart.com/art/AmalgaMATE-2-93266084

 

This one looks quite nice too, and seems more simple than trying to cut out vent-like sections: http://phdabc123.deviantart.com/art/cyborg-practice-273242701 (I also like the face seam in this one).

 

I like the leg designs from this one, especially the glowy circle on the hip: http://great-guardian.deviantart.com/art/My-Alkaline-Beauty-259516411

 

This ones cool too: http://derek82.deviantart.com/art/robot-191736237

 

I like the glowing seams in this one: http://josephcasas.deviantart.com/art/Cyber-Moe-309279397

 

Here's an idea for the butt: http://daveraven.deviantart.com/art/Auto-Reactivation-279771481

[GrimSovereign]

No I just want a texture edit... though actually having the cut out sections in the knees and elbows like in the pics would be fantastic as well. Especially if they could have glowy bits in certain areas. But a simple texture with just the panel cut-outs would be pretty nice.

 

My idea is a race that was altered by the dwemer and became part mechanical, and have been living in underground ruins since the dwarves disappeared; kinda like the falmer, but not deranged mutants.

 

I want it done on UNPB and Mature skin (I can supply my edited mature skin texture).

dont know how well it would look with just the texture and maps, i personaly am not very good with photoshop, zbrush, 3ds max, and maya is were im better at 

[Fox Maiden]

Well theres a bunch of pics I just posted, you could take some ideas from there... if you can some how make the seams show up on the skin texture after a model edit, I think I could colour them, Im pretty good with photoshop (just not for heavy edits of 3d stuff).

[GrimSovereign]

i beleave that if i edit the model in zbrush, ill actualy make the body incompatable with the unp textures for the body would need to be re textured from scratch, so probobly would be best if you or someone skilled with photoshop can get the effect your wanting with just editing the texture.

[Fox Maiden]

Well if you want t try it. I would be interested in seeing the results... if you would like to.

[GrimSovereign]

ill get back to you then ;3

[GrimSovereign]

ok so after playing around with it for a few minutes i managed to actualy crash my zbrush lol, but i did manage to take one picture before then, when i had finished using polypaint on the surface of the mesh to mark out were my polygroups were going to be i went and added grouploups to the polygrops. now that is were the secret to geting the effect you are loving so much would come from is those groupe loups witch essentialy creates a set of polygoups around the ones you made acting as borders between the groups, you can then isolate the borders and use the deformation or sculpting tools to edit these border derectly without effecting the rest of the mesh causing the body to look like it has crevises or devided plates like what your looking for (my zbrush crashed when i started palying around with the deformations on the borders and i didnt save it, go meee ) 

 

but yah heres a pic:

 

 

 

and heres a video kinda showing really quickly what i was doing, witch is seting up poly groups and group loops then isolating them and just editing those: 

[Fox Maiden]

I have no idea what you just said, but please, continue.

[GrimSovereign]

I have no idea what you just said, but please, continue.

naw im getting back onto my projects, its basicly just a trick in zbrush to create trenches.

[Fox Maiden]

Aw ok... maybe someone can help me just do a texture edit then... I can probly stumble my way through the easy parts like the belly and back, but the wrap around for the legs and arms and neck have always been a hassle for me.

[GrimSovereign]

Aw ok... maybe someone can help me just do a texture edit then... I can probly stumble my way through the easy parts like the belly and back, but the wrap around for the legs and arms and neck have always been a hassle for me.

just work in layers and colapse them down before saving it as a dds then hit back to get the layers bak, test the skin in game to see were lines go to and move them accordingly, could take a while but thats how id do it.

[thatTESguy]

As far as polycount, I have no problems with 100k+ tris on single characters on any reasonably beefy system. (no noticeable frame rate hit). The limit these days isn't polycount anyways, but texture sizes. (Well, unless you waste 50k tris on concrete roadblocks, similar to what Crysis on extreme tessellation settings does). If you actually use those polygons for useful detail, then no one's going to complain.

 

I have several other opinions about dev implementations of tessellation, most of them unsatisfactory, summarized by that article above.

[Fox Maiden]

It's full of polygons...!! *_*

[thatTESguy]

A

from the Master himself (John Carmack if you're wondering).

 

(Oh god, so much smart in that video. Watching it all).

[GrimSovereign]

A

from the Master himself (John Carmack if you're wondering).

 

(Oh god, so much smart in that video. Watching it all).

i think its neat that i understood everything he said

 

even though the vid is kinda old, the head set bit i agree with and i had found this a while ago so were getting closer to complete immersion:

http://www.oculusvr.com/

[Fox Maiden]

Could someone tell me how to set up a glow map on this mesh?! None of the tutorials I have found make sense, or their screenies don't look like my nifskope. :x

 

I have the <filename>_g.dds file already, and the mesh is setup to use it... but I don't know what to do for these settings:

 

http://oi49.tinypic.com/1gmw4p.jpg

[thatTESguy]

First row, "Skin Tint", change to Glow Shader.

 

I think FaceGen Textures (Flags 1) is not supported on glow shaders, but I'm not sure.

 

_g should go into BSShaderTextureSet, 3rd entry.

 

Make sure to set an emissivity color - color is not important, but higher absolute brightness - more glowy. Emissivity multiple should be left at 1.

[thatTESguy]

On a related question, does anyone understand subsurface scattering and whether it works with a non-facegen texture?

[Fox Maiden]

Thank you for the reply Jim.

[b3lisario]

I saw this yesterday and thought it could be useful

 

China Doll Race

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

I saw that yesterday it's very poorly done as the separations in the "panels" appear to be painted on.

[Rayblue]

There are manchildren out there who are scared of anything that isn't, uh, lore-friendly or goes against convention, but otherwise the China Doll mod tries to bring something different to the UNP body system.

 

The CDUNP texture could do a little reworking, but then that what happens when you have to work on a flat surface and it becomes uneven once wrapped around the mesh.